The exam paper felt cold and heavy in his hand. He hadn't studied enough. He knew it. The proof was right there in front of him. A wave of regret washed over him, a bitter tide that threatened to drown him. He felt the familiar sting of tears welling in his eyes. He quickly blinked them away. His throat felt constricted, making it difficult to speak. He pushed the paper to the side, not wanting to look at it any longer, but the image was already burned into his memory.

Emotion: unsettled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.33 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.65

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion unsettled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 unsettled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the unsettled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the unsettled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.382
😞0.309
ness0.301
😣0.256
😔0.248
Suppressed:
de-0.721
la-0.597
a-0.365
"-0.299
l-0.274